European Learning Industry Group

The European Learning Industry Group (ELIG) is a pan-Europe lobby group for corporations providing education products and services, including multi-national technology firms.

Its mission, it says, is 'to change the way Europe learns'.

Members

ELIG's corporate members include:

• IBM
• Pearson
• Microsoft (joined ELIG in August 2015)
• Samsung (joined ELIG January 2015)
• HP (Hewlett Packard)
• Intel
• McGraw Hill
• Cambridge University Press
• Wiley

People

Board

ELIG's board includes:

• Fadi Khalek, chair: Khalek is Vice President Higher Education & Applied Learning, Pearson Education; and a Senior Advisor at Active M investment.
• Diem Ho, vice chair: Manager of University Relations (EMEA), IBM
• Paul Hunter, vice chair: Director, IMD's Corporate Learning Network
• Alexa Joyce. board member: Director of Policy, Teaching and Learning for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Worldwide Education, Microsoft
• Steffen Ganders, board member: Senior Manager and Head of Corporate Affairs Samsung

Staff

• Richard Straub, ELIG secretary general; formerly of IBM
• Elmar Husmann, ELIG Deputy Secretary General & Public Policy Advisor; formerly of PwC and IBM (IBM bought PwC's consulting arm in 2002).
• Claudia Didjurgeit, senior adviser; formerly of PwC and IBM
• Sabine Windgasse, operations; formerly of PwC and IBM
• Florence Rizzo, ELIG fellow; founder of Creative Lab for Social Change; also worked with Ashoka, a global network of innovative Social Entrepreneurs

History

Formerly know as the 'eLearning Industry Group', it was founded in 2002. It became ELIG in 2007 as it attracted members from the wider e-learning industry, such as the publishing and content industry. In 2009 it partnered with German agency ICWE, which organises events in education, training and ICT, such as Online Educa Berlin and eLearning Africa.

Contacts

Website: http://www.elig.org